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  • Members: 879
  • Category: Poland
  • Founded: Sep 18, 2001
  • Language: English
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(See also http://www.Kresy-Siberia.org) The "Kresy-Siberia Group" brings into contact people from countries around the world with a special interest in the fate of over one million Polish citizens of various faiths and ethnicities (Polish, Ukrainian, Belorussian, Catholic, Orthodox, Jewish, etc.) arrested or deported from eastern Poland (Kresy) to special labour camps in Siberia, Kazakhstan and Soviet Asia. The circumstances of their odyssey and the tragic history of the Polish citizens under Soviet occupation during WW2 was hushed up by the Allies during the war to protect the reputation of the Soviet Union, an important ally fighting the Nazis.

Sixty years later the survivors have aged and many have died. With this list we hope to bring together surviving deportees and their descendants to remember, learn, discover and spread the word of their ordeal to the world and to future generations.

If this list group can play even a small role in that effort, it will have been an important achievement.

"Niektorzy w naszej grupie mowia i po polsku i po angielsku, wiec prosze sie nie krepowac pisac po Polsku i przetlumaczymy tresc Waszego pisma. Niestety, nie stac nam na przetlumaczeniu wszystkich pism angielskich na polski, ale zaprasamy Wam sobie przetlumaczyc poprzez strony http://www.google.pl/language_tools?hl=pl".

The above photo is of Basia Sgrunowska and Farynka Sgrunowska on the train from Lugova to Krasnovodzk (in the evacuation to Persia after their release from exile in the USSR), 23 March 1942 (private archives of Zofia Jordanowska - courtesy of VideoFact).

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Re: 3rd Carpathian Div. 2nd Polish Corps.Sergeant Boleslaw AUGUSTYN
Hi there , My father was in the 3rd Carpathian Division too. He joined after Monte Cassino, but like so many (maybe all) others, the story of how he got there
Posted - Sat Jul 11, 2009 6:35 am
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3rd Carpathian Div. 2nd Polish Corps.Sergeant Boleslaw AUGUSTYN phot
Likewise with my earlier post about Valivade I have photos of my grandfather and other men in this division. If anyone has grandfathers / fathers or any
Posted - Sat Jul 11, 2009 5:01 am
danielle meyer
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Valivade Orphanage India 1942-48
hello, I was going to put the photos i have of Valivade in an album on the site. But due to the technical work etc going on with that part of the site I
Posted - Sat Jul 11, 2009 4:37 am
danielle meyer
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Re: Behind Closed Doors etc...
Hi, Here's an excerpt from my father's book that mentions the same: "Absolutely everything was on a schedule. Time ruled our lives. At one o'clock we attended
Posted - Fri Jul 10, 2009 11:25 pm
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Re: Behind Closed Doors etc...
Hi Koledzy   Interesting.  I knew that tghe germans could not develop weapons beyond what was neded forf self-defence,berut you know how long that lasted. 
Posted - Fri Jul 10, 2009 8:19 pm
RICHARD KASPRZAK
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